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Klaus Butterbach-Bahl publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Butterbach-Bahl sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 602 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Butterbach-Bahl sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 107 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to soil science, ecology, plant science, environmental chemistry, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, peatlands and wetlands ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, agriculture, soil and plant science, and rangeland management and livestock ecology.

Their recent publications illustrate the thematic breadth and impact of their work. Notable papers include:

  • Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Global greenhouse vegetable production systems are hotspots of soil N2O emissions and nitrogen leaching: A meta-analysis (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production (2023, Nature Food)
  • Estimating global terrestrial denitrification from measured N2O:(N2O + N2) product ratios (2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability)

The scientist often collaborates with frequent co-authors including Ralf Kiese, Michael Dannenmann, Xunhua Zheng, Zhisheng Yao, and Lutz Merbold, indicating a network of researchers working on related themes.

Butterbach-Bahl's research is published primarily in venues that focus on environmental and agricultural sciences. These publication venues include The Science of The Total Environment, Global Change Biology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from soils: how well do we understand the processes and their controls?

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Elizabeth M. Baggs;Michael Dannenmann;Ralf Kiese

  • The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century

    David Fowler;Mhairi Coyle;Ute Skiba;Mark A. Sutton

  • METHODS FOR MEASURING DENITRIFICATION: DIVERSE APPROACHES TO A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

    Peter M. Groffman;Mark A. Altabet;John K. Bohlke;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

    Mario Herrero;Benjamin Henderson;Petr Havlík;Philip K. Thornton;Philip K. Thornton

  • Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

    D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  • Challenges to incorporating spatially and temporally explicit phenomena (hotspots and hot moments) in denitrification models

    Peter M. Groffman;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Robinson W. Fulweiler;Arthur J. Gold

  • A process-oriented model of N2O and NO emissions from forest soils: 1. Model development

    Changsheng Li;John Aber;Florian Stange;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Trade-offs between soil carbon sequestration and reactive nitrogen losses under straw return in global agroecosystems

    Longlong Xia;Longlong Xia;Shu Kee Lam;Benjamin Wolf;Ralf Kiese

  • Carbon Sequestration in Arable Soils is Likely to Increase Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Offsetting Reductions in Climate Radiative Forcing

    Changsheng Li;Steve Frolking;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • The nitrogen cycle: A review of isotope effects and isotope modeling approaches

    Tobias R.A. Denk;Joachim Mohn;Charlotte Decock;Dominika Lewicka-Szczebak

  • Effects of soil moisture and temperature on NO, NO2, and N2O emissions from European forest soils

    Andreas Schindlbacher;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from a cropped soil in a semi-arid climate

    Louise Barton;Ralf Kiese;David Gatter;Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl

  • Reactive nitrogen in the environment and its effect on climate change

    Jan Willem Erisman;Jan Willem Erisman;Jim Galloway;Sybil Seitzinger;Albert Bleeker

  • Grazing-induced reduction of natural nitrous oxide release from continental steppe

    Benjamin Wolf;Xunhua Zheng;Nicolas Brüggemann;Weiwei Chen

  • Impact of gas transport through rice cultivars on methane emission from rice paddy fields

    K. Butterbach-Bahl;H. Papen;H. Rennenberg

  • Modeling denitrification in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at regional scales.

    Elizabeth W. Boyer;Richard B. Alexander;William J. Parton;Changsheng Li

  • Fluxes of NO and N2O from temperate forest soils: impact of forest type, N deposition and of liming on the NO and N2O emissions

    K. Butterbach-Bahl;R. Gasche;L. Breuer;H. Papen

  • Effects of soil temperature and moisture on methane uptake and nitrous oxide emissions across three different ecosystem types

    G.J. Luo;Ralf Kiese;B. Wolf;B. Wolf;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Effects of global change during the 21st century on the nitrogen cycle

    D. Fowler;C. E. Steadman;D. Stevenson;M. Coyle

  • N2O and CO2 emissions from three different tropical forest sites in the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia

    Ralf Kiese;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Kiese
Ralf Kiese Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Xunhua Zheng
Xunhua Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Dannenmann
Michael Dannenmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nicolas Brüggemann
Nicolas Brüggemann Forschungszentrum Jülich
Mariana C. Rufino
Mariana C. Rufino Lancaster University
Zhisheng Yao
Zhisheng Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hans Papen
Hans Papen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ute Skiba
Ute Skiba Natural Environment Research Council
Rainer Gasche
Rainer Gasche Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lutz Breuer
Lutz Breuer University of Giessen

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